The Routledge handbook of international development, mental health and wellbeing / / Laura Davidson.

• TeilnehmendeR: Davidson, Laura (Lawyer),
• Place / Publishing House: Abingdon, Oxon ;, New York, NY : : Routledge,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Includes index.

Mental health has always been a low priority worldwide. Yet more than 650 million people are estimated to meet diagnostic criteria for common mental disorders such as depression and anxiety, with almost three-quarters of that burden in low- and middle-income countries. Nowhere in the world does ment...

Table of Contents

• Foreword : the new UN health agenda / Jeffrey Sachs
• The global mental health imperative and the role of the World Health Organization within the UN 2030 agenda / Shekhar Saxena and Laura Davidson
• The rights to mental health and development / Larry Gostin and Laura Davidson
• Meeting SDG3 : the role of economics in mental health policy / Martin Knapp and Valentina Iemmi
• The relationship between mental health and poverty in LMICs / Judith Bass
• Meeting SDG1 and SDG3 : addressing the link between mental health and economic development in vietnam / Chris Underhill, Victoria Ngo and Tam Nguyen
• Social entrepreneurship and systems thinking about mental illness in lmics / Sean Kidd and Kwame McKenzie
• Understanding traditional and other culture-based approaches to mental illness in lower and middle income contexts / Joseph D. Calabrese
• Addressing mental health from a gender perspective : challenges and opportunities in meeting SDG3 / Carol Vlassoff
• Men's mental health and wellbeing : the global challenge / Svend Aagesen
• The mental health and well-being of migrants in the context of the 2030 sustainable development agenda / Guglielmo Schinina and Karoline Popp
• The sustainable development goals and child and adolescent mental health in low and middle income countries / Cornelius Ani and Olayinka Omigbodun
• The global challenge of mental health and ageing, and scalable innovations in mental health services for older adults / Stephen J. Bartels
• Strengthening government policy to achieve target 3.4 of SDG3 / Rachel Jenkins
• Mental health, disability rights and equal access to employment : global challenges in light of the SDGs / Aart Hendriks
• Prioritising rights-based mental health care in the 2030 agenda / Dainius Puras and Julie Hannah
• Natural and humanitarian disasters, and mental health : lessons from Haiti / Giuseppe Raviola
• Paradigm shift : treatment alternatives to psychiatric drugs, with particular reference to LMICs / Peter Lehmann
• Mental disability, the European Convention on Human Rights and fundamental rights and freedoms, and the sustainable development goals / Peter Bartlett
• The sustainable development goals, psychosocial disability, and the meaning of wellbeing in SDG3 : towards an approach that combines the subjective and objective / David Bilchitz
• International monitoring and enforcement mechanisms for violations of human rights in the global mental health context / Laura Davidson
• The law as sword and shield : realising the rights of those with psychosocial disability through international, national and regional complaints systems / Laura Davidson
• A case study : Colombia, conflict, and the peace process from a user-perspective / Salam A. Gómez
• Legislating on mental health in India to achieve SDG3 / Amita Danda
• Breaking the restraints : civil society's struggle to abolish human rights violations in Israel's psychiatric system / Sharon Primor and Dahlia Virtzberg-Rofé
• Afterword : joining up for our future in global mental health / Vikram Patel
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